2023-06-01
32 分钟I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.
The Great Lakes region is becoming the sort of vortex of instability.
And the great irony is that so much of this is actually being initiated by Rwanda.
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda,
Paul Kagame was seen as a hero who had come to the rescue of his people.
Since then, the Rwandan president has cultivated this image,
and the West has been eager to believe it.
But for Makayla Rong, a journalist who has covered Africa for decades,
cracks in the story became too big to ignore.
My colleague Ty McCormick talked to Rong about what her reporting has uncovered,
including in a recent essay for Foreign Affairs.
Today, Kagame's meddling in Congo has brought Central Africa to the brink of a wider war,
and outside powers are doing little to stop it.
Mikayla, thanks for joining us.
Welcome to the Foreign Affairs interview.
It's a pleasure.
So I want to talk about your new article in Foreign Affairs, Kagame's Revenge,
about Rwanda's support for a rebel group that's destabilizing much of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But first, I'd love if you could take us back and help us set the stage for how we got here.
As a journalist, you covered the Rwandan genocide and its brutal aftermath for the BBC and Reuters.